Mark J. Perry

Mark J. Perry is concurrently a scholar at AEI and a professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan’s Flint campus. He is best known as the creator and editor of the popular economics blog Carpe Diem. At AEI, Perry writes about economic and financial issues for American.com and the AEIdeas blog.

Using actual campus crime data from the University of Minnesota and assuming the White Claim that only 12% of sexual assaults are reported, an analysis shows that only 1 in 38 female UM students was the victim of sexual assault from 2010-2012.

The first episode of “The Price is Right” in 1972 featured a 1972 Chevy Vega. How does a car like that from the early 1970s compare to a modern 2015 Toyota Corolla for price, quality, durability, financing costs, safety and fuel economy? Find out here.

French economist Frederic Bastist observed various forms of “legal plunder” in the mid-1800s. Today we call it “crony capitalism” and still see it everywhere in the form of farm subsidies, the Export-Import bank, the minimum wage law, tariffs and quotas on foreign sugar, green energy subsidies, ethanol mandates, the list goes on…..

Instead of complaining about “currency manipulation,” we should thank China for its “foreign aid” to American consumers and businesses by strengthening the US dollar and thereby lowering our import prices and saving us millions of dollars.

The California Endowment is calling on Sacramento residents to “do the math” in favor of raising the minimum wage, but upon closer examination, it appears they have failed to do the math right themselves.